Personally, if the author/maintainer of any library claims it is maintained/up-to-date, I say trust them. Most people are pretty honest about the status of their projects. But it does require a positive response to really make this claim.<br>

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&gt;<br>
&gt; On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Chris McDonough &lt;<a href="mailto:chrism@plope.com">chrism@plope.com</a>&gt;<br>
&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; &gt; <a href="http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks" target="_blank">http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks</a><br>
&gt; seems to be the place where folks<br>
&gt; &gt; are registering their respective web frameworks.<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; I&#39;d like to move some of the frameworks which are<br>
&gt; currently in the various<br>
&gt; &gt; categories which haven&#39;t been active in a few years.<br>
&gt; In particular, I&#39;d<br>
&gt; &gt; like to move any framework which hasn&#39;t had a release<br>
&gt; since the beginning of<br>
&gt; &gt; 2008 (arbitrary) into the &quot;Discontinued / Inactive&quot;<br>
&gt; framework category. I&#39;d<br>
&gt; &gt; be willing to do the work to make sure I wasn&#39;t moving<br>
&gt; one that actually<br>
&gt; &gt; *did* have releases past that but just hadn&#39;t updated<br>
&gt; the page.<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; Any dissent?<br>
&gt; &gt;<br>
&gt; &gt; - C<br>
<br>
</div>Why not call them &quot;apparently stable&quot;<br>
versus &quot;under active development&quot;? Is the<br>
cgi module &quot;discontinued&quot;?<br>
<br>
I&#39;m a little sensitive on this topic<br>
because people tell me that Gadfly is &quot;inactive&quot;<br>
or &quot;discontinued&quot;<br>
but it still does what it does<br>
as documented very well.<br>
<br>
Frequent releases may actually be a sign of<br>
bugginess and bad design.<br>
If you suspect a project is really dead, maybe you<br>
could try to contact the authors and ask about<br>
what they think.<br>
<br>
-- Aaron Watters<br>
<br>
===<br>
BTW, I think &quot;Release early, release often&quot; is nonsense<br>
because it means you are probably releasing<br>
something buggy and unstable which will just alienate<br>
your users, who will never come back to see the better<br>
version.<br>
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